David Wenner | dwenner@pennlive.com

About Me:

David Wenner has worked for The Patriot-News/PennLive since 1999 and won numerous awards for his reporting. For many years he focused on health care. Now he's an enterprise/watchdog reporter, and interested in any important, troubling or otherwise noteworthy situation in central Pennsylvania. He still writes about health care as well. He welcomes tips and stories ideas. He lives in Cumberland County near Carlisle. His personal interests include books, music, especially alternative rock music from the 70s and 80s, physical fitness and economics. He's married and has two children. He grew up in Allentown, Pa. He lived near the former Mack Trucks world headquarters, and what was once Mack's largest manufacturing plant. He caught a lot of trout in the creek that skirted the site. Many of the men in his neighborhood worked there, and he regularly saw them walking to work, carrying their lunchboxes, and heard the whistle blow at noon. He can be reached at dwenner@pennlive.com or 717-255-8172.

The Obama administration on Monday estimated that in 2015 between 9 million and 10 million people will have health insurance purchased through the online marketplace that's part of the Affordable Care Act. That's a lower figure than in April, when the Congressional Budget Office estimated 13 million people would have coverage through the marketplace, or "exchanges," in 2015. The 9-10... Full story »